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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?
(a) California.
(b) Oklahoma City.
(c) Montgomery.
(d) Mississippi.

2. How many students marched toward the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,000.

3. Dr. King reached out to his extensive religious contacts, including the National Baptist Convention, to organize what conference?
(a) Montgomery Christian Conference.
(b) Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(c) Southern Baptist Conference.
(d) Southern Religious Conference.

4. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?
(a) To make people angry.
(b) To form violent organizations legally.
(c) To form anti-government organizations.
(d) To resist Jim Crow laws.

5. When did the African nation of Ghana acquire its independence from British rule?
(a) March 6, 1957.
(b) December 1, 1955.
(c) September 9, 1955.
(d) April 9, 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date notated at the beginning of Chapter 3, "The Power of Nonviolence"?

2. What did white racists bomb on September, 9 1957?

3. Who were the primary people who led the movement exemplified by eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians?

4. How old was Martin Luther King, Jr., when Gandhi was assassinated?

5. Less than a week after the Youth March for Integrated Schools, a black youth was lynched. What was the name of this black youth?

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